Update: 2 teens shot at West Berkeley hotel

Police responded to a shooting at La Quinta hotel in West Berkeley on Saturday, June 7. Photo: Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside

Police responded to a shooting at La Quinta hotel in West Berkeley. Photo: Emilie Raguso/Berkeleyside

BERKELEYSIDE: Two teenagers were victims of gunshot wounds Saturday night in West Berkeley.

Berkeley authorities responded to Eighth Street and University Avenue shortly before 11 p.m. and found two victims.

According to unconfirmed scanner traffic, one person had been shot in the face and one person had been shot in the leg. Both were taken by ambulance to a local hospital for medical care.

Authorities received a report of a third person, who had been shot in the chest, but had not located anyone matching that description as of 11:15 p.m. They planned to call local hospitals to see if that person had gotten to the hospital in some other way, according to the scanner.

One resident reported on Twitter hearing “five or more rounds … fired in sporadic but very rapid succession.”

(This story was updated after publication as additional information became available from authorities.)

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